That is all.

Trump and company believe these things at the very moment because they're in power. As soon as he's out, it'll be him bitching about the federal government doing illegal and immoral things, picking on him, and generally treating him so unfairly

If a Democrat was doing this sort of thing, there'd also be calls for "hanging those responsible" from the party of law and order.

Hadn't thought of that, but it'd probably work. Sorry Mr Trump, but you should be flattered that we pulled one of your most venerable plays from your playbook.

He'll move the goalposts if CA agrees to this, and he'll keep on moving them until CA is the Trumpian Utopia that he wants all states to be.

The "Extend" in "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" is adding features and functionality to the embraced standard. They then push this extended standard into all their products, so that there exists compatibility issues with any version of a product meant to interact with the base standard.

This gives open source and other competitors' alternatives to Microsoft products the appearance of being shitty because they can't deal with Microsoft's non-standard bullshit, which is where the "Extinguish" part is achieved.

I give politicians equal time just to confuse and anger people. I've got both Harris/Waltz 2024 and Trump 2024 stickers. It's hilarious that it was actually hard to find a Trump/What's his name 2024 sticker, so I just didn't get one.

It's been true for years that any vehicle with gun affiliated bumper stickers on it is much more likely to have a gun you can steal out of it.

Or one of those evangelical folks.

A lot of folks eat non-dairy ice cream because of health reasons or ethical reasons. There's enough of a market for it that they make the stuff.

A lot of folks watch these things already for a variety of reasons, but whatever those are there appears that the market for synthetic live action-esque movies has a positive cost benefit ratio for the folks making these things. Hell, most blockbuster movies are 50% CGI already. The jump to 100% isn't all that much.

Too bad idiocy and courage are like peas and carrots.

How is that conflating one with the other if the CYA policies enable the individual officers to make those calls without any consequences? The individual officer discretion, and/or lack of meaningful accountability are only possible because of the departments' legal actions.

I think more accountability is needed, with an acknowledgement that police are often in situations where normal civilians aren't, and they SHOULD have different rules in order to be able to do their jobs...but that accountability needs to exist.

Police have no duty to prevent crime. More than one department has gone to court about that specifically. Police don't even have to arrest someone who's committed a crime; they can choose to issue a summons, citation, or simply a warning and move on.

The end result of all that is selective enforcement based on biases of individual police officers, and collective biases enforced via policy within entire departments.

There's no great way to measure angles on that projection from the display side of the screen. I think that since someone bothered to project an oblate spheroid onto a flat (or possible curved) plane, that whatever witchcraft is performing that operation should be able to give us the heading of the shortest distance between any two points while traveling on or about the surface of the object.

You can present the image of a 3 dimensional object from a given point of view on a flat screen. That's what all FPSs do.